Giuseppe Sogni was an Italian painter, known for portraits and historical scenes.
Self-portrait (date unknown)
Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I
Pope Pius VII Crossing the Alps
Fresco is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster,
The Creation of Adam, a detail of the fresco Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo
Etruscan fresco. Detail of two dancers from the Tomb of the Triclinium in the Necropolis of Monterozzi 470 BC, Tarquinia, Lazio, Italy.
A Roman fresco of a young man from the Villa di Arianna, Stabiae, 1st century AD
Fresco by Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. Sky and blue mantle of Maria were painted a secco, and large part of the painting is now lost.